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Traditionally, metals need to be extracted through mining and then shaped into usable materials using large amounts of heat. But now, a Seattle-based startup thinks it has found a better, more energy-efficient method for creating metal.
Modumetal has developed a way to “grow” metal using electricity and nanotechnology. This method allows the company to control basically all of the charicteristics of the metals.
Christina Lomasney, CEO and co-founder of Modumetal, is a physicist who has spent years working with this type of electrochemistry and materials. She told Fortune that the company’s process is “the ideal way of making materials.”